We're making history at Toorak

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Aims:
· To gain an understanding and appreciation of the long and varied history at Toorak College and how it shapes you as a person.
· To encourage Year 7 students to use previous generations of Toorak College Old Girls as a valuable historical resource.
· To appreciate cross generational interaction.
· To transfer the recording of history into an appropriate electronic format.
· To develop inquiry, interviewing and communication skills.
Project Outcomes
By the end of the project, you will have achieved the following:

- Working as part of a team to pursue an area of interest for a particular decade in Toorak College’s history.
- Applying research and higher order thinking skills such as critical thinking.
- Effectively used primary and secondary resources.
- Understand the nature of the school archives and learn how to carefully access and use the resources found in this location.
- Producing a digital historical record to be presented to the Old Girls’ which informs the community about a particular decade of Toorak College’s history.
- Completing a review and evaluation of your group’s research steps.